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LIFE & TRAVEL
ROTARYDOWNUNDER.ORG | 45 |
THE TRAP
Melanie Raabe
RRP: $29.99
This is the second crime fiction novel
I’ve read recently that has come out of
Germany.
Rotary Down Under readers may
remember the first, which I also reviewed
here – The Truth and Other Lies by
Sascha Arango. Now we have The Trap
by Melanie Raabe. Both have been debut
novels, both have featured writing and
story-telling of the highest order, both
have Imogen Taylor as translator and both
come from Text Publishing. And both
feature fictional authors with secrets to
hide.
Over four days I was drawn in to
the hermetic world of Linda Conrads,
an author who, despite considerable
success, is unable to leave her house due
to trauma brought on by her being the
sole witness to the escaping murderer
of her sister. The murderer was never
caught and in the 12 years that have
since passed her illness has meant all
her contact with the outside world is
through technology and a small cohort
of colleagues such as her publisher and
agent.
Linda Conrads is, despite her wish to
be well again, the mysterious reclusive
author. Then, on television, she sees the
face of the murderer.
Written in the first person, it doesn’t
take long for the reader to be cocooned
in the hothouse paranoia that exists in
Linda Conrads’ head as she devises a trap
to draw out her sister’s murderer and
extract a confession.
This is a super-taut psycho-thriller.
Review by Lindy Jones
Abbey’s Bookshop | abbeys.com.au
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